Daily Republican., 1887-04-15


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In the full fair liz hit Of the DAY.
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axNKY ARD BEEoHEx ON YOUNG
MEMS DIssIPATIONS.
Like a voice from the beyond APP
bears an article by the late Rev Henry
Ward Beecher on youthful Excuses
md Old Age, "printed in the Brooklyn
Magazine tor April. This article, pre-
one of the last, if not the very
asst, written by the eminent divine,
possesses peculiar interest on that ac-
count. leaving aside the subject mat
er, which is interesting of itself
Mr.. Beecher did not believe in the
of "wild oats" He says:
''Old age has the foundation of its JOY
)r its sorrow laid in youth. Every
stone Ibid in the foundation takes hold
Of every stone in the wall up to the
very caves of the building, and every
deed, right or wrong, that transpires
IN youth reaches forward, and has q
relation to all the afterpart of mans
life. Il 4 That which one
loes in youth is the root, and all the
afterparts, middle age and old age, are
The branches and the fruit whose char
lcter the root will determine"
RIGHT TO FoURscoRE YEARS
Every man belongs to an economy
in which he has right to calculate on
eighty years as fair term of life. His
body is placed in world calculated to
and protect it. Nature is con-
genial. There are elements enough
of mischief in it if man please to find
them out. A man can W ear his body
out as quickly as he may please, de-
stroy it ii he will; but, after all, the
great laws of nature are nourishing
laws, and nature is the universal nurse,
the universal physician of our race,
warning us of evil by incipient pains,
and cautioning us by SORROWS for our
benefit. Every immoderate draft
which is made by the appetites and
passions is SO much sent forward TO be
cashed in old age. The eighty years
OF life with which prospect every one
starts out are like bank deposit full
of treasures; but youth is wont TO draw
checks continually on old age.
SOWING WILD OATS
"Men are accustomed to look upon
the excuses OF youth as something
that belongs to that time, and to say
tina, the young, like colts. will dispor
themselves. There is no harm in colt
themselves, but colt nevel
gets drunk" Mr.. Beecher does no
find faul, with gayety or vivacity, bu
he does object to such course in you'll
as takes away the strength, vigor al(
purity of old age. Il do not believe,
he says, "that any man should TAX,
the candle of his old age and light /
| by the vices OF his youth.
Men have an impression that youth i
livery much like wine, crude and in
Isipid until it has fermentcd; but whel
lit has fermented, and thrown down
the lees, and the scum has been draw
loft, the great body between is sound
and wholesome, and beautiful. III
no, one that thinks so. think tina
Iyouth is the beginning Of the plan
| life, and that every wart or excrescenc
lis so much enlightenment OF its fruit
bearing power. | do not believe this
|any man is the better for hayin
Learned the whole career of drunken
ness or OF lust, or the dallyings or il
ldulgences that belong 10 a morbid lit'
IA young man who has gone throug
these things may be saved at last; bl
lin after life he has not the sensibilitl
|nor the purity, nor the moral stamlil
THAT he ought TO have. He has gor
Through an experience but for whic
his manhood would have been bot
Istronger and nobler."
| RIGHT AND WRONG OF DANCING.
| For this reason our author depi
Icates late hours, irregular hours or i
regular sleep. AS Tor dancing, he oil
Ijects to it only as it infringes on reg
liar habits and becomes dissipation
THE harm is not in the dancing itscl
| he says, for if they danced, as do Il
peasants, in the open air, upon Il
} grass under the trees, and in the da.
Lii might be commended, not as vi
ltuous, but still as belonging to tho'
NEGATIVE things that may be beautiful
"But the wassai in the night. Il
. wastefulness will not say of pr
Icious hours, for hours are not halt .
Iprecious as nerves are-the dissip8tiC
: continued night af.er night, and wet
, after week through the the whole Sc
: Ison, it is this l deprecate as eatir
Tout the very life. am not supersl
Ia, ~ nj, httt | al
thankful that there are forty days
ILent in the year. when folks can re
from their debauchcs and dissipation
Iwhen no round of excessive excii
o ment in the pursuit of pleasure is pc
United to come in and ruin the heal
: and cripple the natural powers of y
!. kyoung. The appetites of youth, whit
j. Ieither in social or in solitary life dra
ldown the vitality and impair the co
= Istitution, are so many insidious assau
! lon old age. l would that the you
KNEW how clearly these things 9
Gods handwriting is We
Y plain and very legible to those W
), have eyes to see."
PURER DAY COMING.
r. The use of stimulants is another {
:. fraction from happiness in old 81
Men usually take what they lie
!, lneed. In other words, we follow q
strongest faculties and not our veal
= tones, and therefore il men be exc
% lsively nervous they almost invarial
n seek to make themselves more so.
lrcio;ce to say that I was brought
F. lfrom my youth to abstain from
bti bacco. 1t is unhealthy; 1t is tilt
~ Iron beginning to end. In rare cas-
IL where there is already some unheal'
lor morbid tendency in the system